Arizona Memories from the '70s

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Women made history in media, business, and politics with firsts as TV anchors, judges, and mayors. Arizonans elected the state’s first Hispanic governor. And the events unfolded with the distinctive ’70s soundtrack, which Arizonans Alice Cooper, The Tubes, and Stevie Nicks helped define.

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@notconsenting6633 5 ай бұрын

I couldn't believe it when KDKB died. It was a sad day😢

@dianebolles8534 5 ай бұрын

I'm Don's youngest. I'm sure every 70s and 80s kid remembers tubing! I know I do!! We didn't have smartphones then. 🤣🤣

@marlinmessenger3654 9 ай бұрын

I remember Dave Pratt at KUPD. He was hilarious. The Red Rocker!

@eltigremadre Ай бұрын

Remember Dave Pratt the morning mayor of Phoenix

@nknighton70 29 күн бұрын

I met him once, really nice guy. He bought me and my coworkers drinks.

@MagnumMike44 17 күн бұрын

I remember listening to Dave Pratt in the mornings when I worked the stocking crew at a grocery store up until 1984 that was part of a chain that's no longer around. He used to be the host of the morning show. He was very funny.

@LLYMYNT 8 ай бұрын

I was a child in Phoenix’70s

@ggrizz6066 5 ай бұрын

This was such a fun look back, thank you! I lived in Phoenix in the 70's. My dad had the "Pool & Brew" pool hall on 32nd St. and on Thomas. We would close the bar and everyone would spend the day floating down the river, it was epic! It was our annual river day and all the patrons would go, 50 of us scrambling to find a tube for the day. We moved to Carefree in the late 70's and my father owned the "Dancing Bull" restaurant in the Spanish Village. The 100 yr. floods would wash out Scottsdale Rd and nobody could reach us, not even venders to deliver our goods. We ended up selling the restaurant just because of that reason....too many 100 yr. floods! LOL

@ArizonaPBS 4 ай бұрын

Wow! Thanks for sharing your memories!

@tammylewis2408 6 ай бұрын

As a kid in the 70s, I watched the sitcom Alice, which was set in Phoenix, and thought it was a great place to live back then; no mention of the sitcom is a crime because it depicted people like Alice who moved out west to start a new life; in her case, she lost her husband in a trucking accident, and she decided to follow her dreams of a singing career that was put on hold when she married her late husband and had her son. She and her teenaged son end up in Phoenix with a broke down car on their way to CA, and she worked at a diner for a stingy boss named Mel. I always loved that sitcom.

@kerryrobinson9947 11 ай бұрын

The veteran's coliseum was the concert venue. Led Zeppelin played there - riots outside. Lots of "blue" smoke.

@jazsurfer 7 күн бұрын

Thank you for putting this together! I moved away from Az in '79 and plan to return this year. Like many, my family & I tubed the Salt, raced dune buggies and dirt trikes and got into Hang Gliding. The cool Jazz scene was happening and life was lively (despite the heat of July & August). New entrepreneurs, with new ideas literally breathed life into an already beautiful place filled with possibilities. Again - Thank You!

@ArizonaPBS 3 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing your memories!

@therealrobertmcdonald Жыл бұрын

Sad Big Surf is gone and the land being turned into apartments.

@smplfi9859 11 ай бұрын

I remember spending my childhood summers there. The best waves in the valley! When you went up on the slides you could see the old drive in as well. Which is also sad to see go. Im not sure there is a drive in, in the valley still

@ArizonaPBS 11 ай бұрын

@@smplfi9859 Thank you both for sharing your memories! Always tough to see long-time favorites go.

@brieziethirteen13 7 ай бұрын

@@ArizonaPBS thats sad to hear..I spent plenty of time there..there and legend city

@MagnumMike44 18 күн бұрын

I remember when Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke were in downtown Phoenix in April of 1977 filming the final scenes of The Gauntlet, the bus they were driving was being riddled with bullet holes shot by hundreds of police officers, and I went downtown and watched as the bus turned on Monroe Street.

@EdHutchinson-hj1pd 2 күн бұрын

Really brought back a lot of fond memories…thank you!

@reneeyounk9663 6 күн бұрын

I loved there from 1985 thru 1991. Long Wings in Tempe, Los Arcos Mall, Thomas Mall, Tower Plaza with Alcolpoco Bay Beach Club, Warsaw Willy's blues, The Bagel on Scottsdale Blvd. The pink Biltmore Desert hotel was just being built and I was at a gathering at a huge sprawling windows and slate estate farther down the road. When Brookshires restaurant was open and we'd go have breakfast after the bar and I saw a bunch of people different from me but... We all needed breakfast. Drive past 58th Ave and it was all orange groves!

@ArizonaPBS 3 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing your memories!

@MagnumMike44 18 күн бұрын

I'm a native Arizonan, born and raised in Phoenix, and before they had flood control, I remember one year in particular when we had a flood and that was in June of 1972, I was 15 years old back then and I remember my friend and I riding our bicycles on flooded streets, we accelerated as fast as we could on the dry sections of streets, and it was thrilling to both of us to make water splash as we rode our bikes through flooded sections of neighborhoods.

@ArizonaPBS 17 күн бұрын

Thank you for sharing your memories!

@EdHutchinson-hj1pd 2 күн бұрын

We moved to Phoenix so I’ve lived here 66 years, I remember all of what you showed… great memories, thank you

@JH_75 8 ай бұрын

What a great series. This predates me as Im only 47 and lived in AZ from 1984-1999, but I love the state and it really feels like home to me when I go there now, even though I have no family left in AZ. Might move back someday.

@ArizonaPBS 8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@KG-xf9ew 11 күн бұрын

Dang man. Such great memories.

@studiokohl1 2 ай бұрын

I remember Mary Jo West was huge when I was in grade school. I lived 3 streets south of Bill Close and would see him walking his dogs when it wasn't to hot out. Our whole neighborhood was a buzz when he was held hostage live on TV. It was horrible. We had a business in west Yellowstone MT (west entrance to Yellowstone park) in the summertime. The first year we went was 1976 and I remember my brother and I missed the bicentennial train. But Montana was more fun for us. We worked our butts off, making money. My brother bought his first computer. TSR 80 from radio shack at Thomas mall. Loved that mall.

@ArizonaPBS 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your memories!

@nknighton70 29 күн бұрын

Growing up in Gilbert in the 70s was kinda like that show Happy Days, we had Jim's Dairy Bar were my teenage sister and her friends hung out. We had the one Circle K and the one Dairy Queen where we hung out. We would either go to Big Surf or Williams Air Force base to go swimming. A lot of my neighbors were foreigners who's parents were in the air force. It seemed like there was a lot more to do on the cheap. We were always outside playing on our bikes because cartoons were few and far between so TV wasn't a top priority.

@ArizonaPBS 27 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing your memories!

@reneeyounk9663 6 күн бұрын

And the tree awned streets with sunken lawns to the west of 32nd st and Thomas. Sure miss all that's gone

@stevefoster4326 8 ай бұрын

Thank you... interesting things I've heard of having moved there in '87.

@ArizonaPBS 8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@brakeme1 10 күн бұрын

I never knew who “compton terrace” was named after. Im watching this the day before he died. I was a kid in tucson in the 70s.

@johnanderson2432 8 ай бұрын

Moved here in July of 1978 from Chicago. The next month the tison gang broke jail. I thought I was in the real wild wild west!

@ArizonaPBS 8 ай бұрын

You picked a dramatic time to arrive, for sure!

@josephbingham1255 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting history. Alice Cooper was an Arizonian since 1958 - Wow. 31:28 Women in the men's shower room? L.A.P.D. 10k race in the 70s started and ended at the Police Academy at Elysian Park. At the end of the race a healthy looking runner woman came in the policemen's locker room. Stripped down in front of male runners and LAPD and jumped into the shower with us! She said the women police officers showers were not working and SHE was entitled to take a shower just like the men - and was going to have one! True story. 35:22 This group of Embassy Marines received special plaques with embossed Marine & Dept. of Sate seals for taking part in the evacuation. I have one in my collection.

@SlammRecords 9 ай бұрын

Born in Maryvale in ‘72, raised in Glendale. I left the Valley in 2004. Apparently Maryvale Hospital closed its doors years ago; is that correct?

@michaelt.9372 10 ай бұрын

You guys should do a special on winslow.

@bullgod1111 11 ай бұрын

Wow I was on stage with Jerry Riopel and Chuck Berry, I knew who Chuck Berry was but not Jerry until this Video.

@ArizonaPBS 10 ай бұрын

Very cool - thanks for sharing!

@ronaldandlinda 8 ай бұрын

I wonder if the people who made this realize that there is much more to Arizona besides the Phoenix area?

@ArizonaPBS 8 ай бұрын

That's a fair point -- there are a lot of '70s stories from the rest of Arizona! Maybe we should make a sequel...

@kcinaz7719 3 ай бұрын

The Don Bolles murder still plagues us today! I have had no one who was involved then give me a reason why they never dug more on the Funk family (Emprise) that ran the Greyhound tracks! Yet 4 years earlier the 92nd Congressional Commission on Crime knew much more. Including the wiretapping of Bolles phones at home and office. Too many who know the truth have died, but there’s still a small handful that know imho. I wish a solid reporter would do more digging on this aspect.

@Scotpatriot 10 ай бұрын

Remember riopell at celebrity new years many times

@bretthatch2823 17 күн бұрын

I was 9 years old when we went to the Freedom Train.

@robinjonson4186 15 күн бұрын

I miss Legend City & Big Surf !!😂

@bethmendoza1847 Жыл бұрын

At 39:49 That’s the Indian bend wash in Scottsdale at Osborn rd looking East

@sambrownsings 11 ай бұрын

Yea, halter tops are what America is all about 🙄

@bethmendoza1847 Жыл бұрын

The bi-centennial, we got stoned and missed it!

@FOUREIGHTYBABY Жыл бұрын

Hahahahahhahahah hell yeah

@hagakuru 9 ай бұрын

Louis Taylor, the man convicted of the fire at the Pioneer, was released from prison in 2013.

@bryanforis1839 3 ай бұрын

When you saw the big truck and all the works in front of your and when you want to Tempe and mesa you all mud the water was going great speed I want kdkb they the first to talking heads and Devo and undertones and heavy metal I see many years and to see the dj when they change format and get albums go get album’s